St. Moritz

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St. Moritz
Canton	Graubünden
District	Maloja
Coordinates	46°30′N 9°50′E
Population	5029 (December 2003)
Area	28.69 km²
Elevation	1822 m
Postal code	7500 <tr><td>SFOS number</td><td>3787</td></tr><tr><td>Website</td><td>www.stmoritz.ch</td></tr><tr><td>Twin towns</td><td>Bariloche (Argentina), Kutchan (Japan), Vail (USA)</td></tr>
Image:Karte Schweiz.png St. Moritz

St. Moritz (German: Sankt Moritz, Romansh: San Murezzan) is a popular resort town in the Engadine valley in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Popular pastimes include skiing and hiking, and nearby there is also the world famous Cresta Run toboggan course.

The year round population is 5,600 with some 3,000 seasonal employees. This population supports hotels and rental units with a total of 13,000 beds.

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St. Moritz has been the host city for the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics. It also hosted the 1934, 1974 and 2003 Alpine Skiing World Championships. It is one of three cities, the others being Innsbruck, Austria and Lake Placid, New York in the United States, that have hosted the Winter Olympic Games twice.

St. Moritz is not famous only for the chic and elegant air it has. It is also a great heritage city. Things that one can see while in St. Moritz include:

The Segantini Museum - dedicated to Giovanni Segantini, the painter that lived the last 5 years of his life in Engandine painting "nature, life, death".

The olympic bob run - the last natural bob sleigh. It's started at the end of November, and in about 3 weeks the team working to get it up and running finishes the job so that everything is ready by Christmas.

Glaciers landscape - this is one of the most impressive views of the area. One can see a lot by descending from Diavolezza glacier to Morteratsch.

[edit] In popular culture

St. Moritz was mentioned in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger as a skiing resort. Also mentioned in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.
St. Mortiz is mentioned in the song Where do you go to my lovely by Peter Sarstedt

[edit] See also

Glacier Express

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Municipalities in the district of Maloja, Switzerland

Graubünden | Districts of Canton Graubünden | Municipalities of the canton of Graubünden

Villages in Engadin (Graubünden, Switzerland)
Maloja - Sils/Segl - Silvaplana - Champfèr - St. Moritz - Celerina/Schlarigna - Pontresina - Samedan - Bever - La Punt - Chamues-ch - Madulain - Zuoz - S-chanf - Zernez - Susch - Lavin - Guarda - Ardez - Tarasp-Vulpera - Ftan - Scuol - Sent - Ramosch - Tschlin - Martina